Subj : Re: Lockable objects
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Torsten Robitzki
Date : Thu May 19 2005 07:34 pm

Uenal Mutlu wrote:

> I'm predicting that in the near future all non-trivial objects the
> programming language offers (esp. C++ & STL) will have
> some built-in synchronization methods for the user, like:
>   Lock()
>   Unlock()
>   TryLock()
>   IsLocked()
>   GetLockCount()
> And most probly the locking will be done by using recursive mutices int=
ernally.

This is just silly. Especial for c++ (and btw. what was former known as=20
STL is part of c++ for over half a decade now) because it's a design=20
principle of c++ that you don't have to pay for what you don't ask for.=20
There is no reason to pack a mutex together with a container.

What you are looking for might be:
std::pair<mutex, std::vector<Bl=F6dsinn> > ;-)

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